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Caligula (Unrated Version)
from Image Entertainment
starring Malcolm McDowell, Teresa Ann Savoy, Helen Mirren, Peter O'Toole, John Steiner
directed by Bob Guccione, Tinto Brass

Features:

• AC-3
• Color
• DVD-Video
• Letterboxed

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0

• One Major Inaccuracy
  You are probably tired of comments on this movie. It is basically a Penthouse porno hiding behind an older version of the same movie. Since I am used to hard core, I didn't flinch during most of the sex scenes.
  However, I was not happy with on major historical inaccuracy of the flick. Claudius, the successor to Caligual was portrayed and a slobbering idiot with an almost mentally retarded character. This was a tremendous injustice. Claudius was, according to the historians, a very timid soul with a... more info

• Fellini is better
  The only thing worth seeing in this crappy ,booooooring! porn movie are the costumes designed by the great Danilo Donati. And even he was sleep walking thru this dreck as he had already done Fellini's "Satyricon" and just fell back on that concept.
  So get "Satyricon" instead. It's really about the same thing (Is "Caligula" about anything really?), is more historically convincing (tho' hardly accurate), in Italian (a great help in creating a cultural reference), and just a better ride into the Ancient... more info

• Before "Rome", before "Gladiator", there was "Caligula"...
  This has to be one of the most unusual films ever made. From Penthouse magazine's Bob Guccione and Director Tinto Brass, "Caligula" is basically a high production porn film... with lasvish sets and costumes, this film is somewhat shocking and even a little disturbing. With nearly two and a half hours of male and female nudity, and serveral hardcore sex scenes thrown in, this is a somewhat creepy film. This is not a bad films, it just is not a great films. "Caligula" is the kind of movie you need see at... more info

• WHAT THE HELL DID YOU EXPECT?
  Okay, so this movie has Helen Helen Mirren, John Gielgud, Peter O'Toole, and Malcom MacDowell...but were you expecting a classic screen version of Gore Vidal's literate account of the corrupting influence of power, performed by the brillance of English theatre talent. Are you on drugs?! Penthouse Magazine is the producer of this thing. In any case, apart from the porno scene additions, this movie does have legs, if you can commit yourself to believing that it's somewhat Fellini-esque in its portrayal of... more info

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